An app developed by a team including Dr Craig Newman, Senior Research Fellow and Mobile Health Tech Innovations Lead at Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, has featured on Channel 4 to launch a campaign highlighting the significant number of young people who die suddenly from epilepsy.

Following World Antibiotic Awareness Week, Dr Mathew Upton, Associate Professor in Medical Microbiology, has appeared in the Sunday Express discussing the University’s work to identify and develop potential new antimicrobials produced by the microbiome of sponges which live deep beneath the ocean surface.

Dr Roy Lowry, Associate Professor in Physical Chemistry, wrote an article for the Royal Society of Chemistry’s “explainer” website on how the combustion of gunpowder is modified to provide precise timings for large public displays.

News that University spin out venture PulsiVSolar, founded on breakthrough research by Dr Mohammed Zaki Ahmed into the efficiency of photovoltaic solar panels, has been granted two patents in the United States has been featured by business media.

A study by Dr Helen Lloyd and her team at Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry sees the development of a practical tool to support organisations and practitioners achieve the organisational change which needs to happen if they are to provide personalised and coordinated care for people with multiple long term conditions.